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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 3h

Clarkson on Farage:

“Nigel Farage rarely talks about the economy and when he does, his numbers don’t add up. He says he wants to cut taxes and increase spending by £150bn. Huh? But before anyone can question his logic, he scuttles back to his safe space and starts raging about small boats.”

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Jen Stephen @ambridgeponyclub.bsky.social · 1h

www.leicestermuseums.org/collections/...

Had no idea this was a whole scene

The Unglamorous Bands – Leicester Museums

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 12h

"I wanted to write about Shropshire for a long time. And because I was living there from a very young age, I felt so strongly and so sensitively about just the place itself, the nature of it. The forests, the landscapes, the nature of light there, and the animals."

Jerskin Fendrix: Beth's Farm

Jerskin Fendrix (AKA Joscelin Dent-Pooley) is an English composer and musician best known for his film music. Beth's Farm is a track from hi...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1h

"The original cut of Annie Hall ran nearly two-and-a-half hours, and according to its editor Ralph Rosenblum was a shapeless mass of bits. "And so we began cutting in the direction of that relationship,” he wrote. Result: 4 Oscars. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

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Adrian Clark @mradrianclark.bsky.social · 1h

I applaud this development in crisp culture.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 5h

Labour's irreconcilable factions; how Moldova saw off Russian interference in its elections; the battle against censorship; the working class and the arts; Harold Pinter's cinematic legacy; Josephine Tey

The Joy of Six 1421

"There was little to no interaction between the three groupings at conference. The main hall hosted debates that were stitched up months ago...

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 1h

I always think Stephen Spender nailed it in "An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum": the idea that if children live in a slum their maps should show only slums - that would be "relevant" - is floated in the poem and passionately rejected.
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An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

And yet, for these Children, these windows, not this map, their world, Where all their future's painted with a fog, A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of w...

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rojoguitarster.bsky.social @rojoguitarster.bsky.social · 14h

Priti Patel on the person that burnt the Koran - I fundamentally believe in free speech. Thirty seconds later on the Palestinian anti-genocide protestors - these "hate marches" are completely unacceptable.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h

Reform UK need to come clean about refugees in Wales.

85% of refugees in Wales being supported are Ukrainian and the grand total of ALL refugees being supported is under 3k.

Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

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Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

Martin Shipton Leading members of the Ukrainian community in Caerphilly are making a formal complaint to the official running the seat’s Senedd by-election, alleging that Reform UK is lying about the ...

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 3h

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk won't play in Saudi Arabia:"In a few days,I will lose 2 world titles bcs I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia.I refuse to play by special rules,to wear abaya,to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the hotel,&feel like a 2cnd class person.

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LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social · 3h

Remains of a medieval building on the banks of Minster Pool, Lichfield.

Its exact purpose is a bit of a mystery and that chap carved into stone is keeping schtum about who, or what, he’s peering at through the arch.

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Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 12h

Until I was 10, we lived in a one-bed flat with no proper bathroom, yet my working class parents had no notion that art galleries, books, foreign films or music were “not for us”. My mum cleaned houses but she’d have recognised Pinter in a lineup. My dad could talk about Rembrandt and Kurosawa.

David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 15h

EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9h

Fascinated by the people replying to this going “well, I can’t read it because of the paywall, so I have no choice but to argue with a version I made up”. I can’t read it because of the paywall either, so I do more productive things, like fretting about today’s Arsenal game.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2h

Her range was proved beyond doubt, though, with the release six months after Annie Hall of Looking for Mr Goodbar, a gruelling drama in which she played a teacher of deaf children who spends her evenings cruising singles bars for sex and is finally murdered.

Diane Keaton obituary

Idiosyncratic American actor who starred in the film classics Annie Hall, The Godfather and Reds

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2h

I like that. And it's what radio sounded like in 1974. It's a wonder we didn't get the call sign for Radio Moscow.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe a bit of both? First the interest and then your verdict on the strength of the science.

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 4h

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

Lower half of the photo, foreground, shows ivy flowers growing on the bank of the River Soar, Leicester. In the background the river and a former textile factory are shrouded in fog.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks, I'll have a listen.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4h

A Met Police spokesperson said Mr Rowland was arrested on 6 October in relation to offences alleged to have taken place between June and October.

He was remanded in custody and is due to appear again at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

Man charged after allegedly stalking Ed Davey and family

As well as the accusations regarding Ed Davey, Inigo Rowland is charged with flick-knife possession.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4h

There's more.

Finding our more about Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley

"It's time to find out more about Frieda Harris," I wrote the other day of the woman who was the wife of one Liberal MP (Sir Percy Harris) ...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4h

Not that Matthew Taylor.

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Shannon Minter @shannonminter5.bsky.social · 7h

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.” - Timothy Keller

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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 4h

It’s complicated but no. Councils need more funds and support to keep them clear. If they exist but are impassable they are of no use. Worth looking at this.

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Threat to thousands of paths removed as UK government repeals 2031 deadline

Today, the UK government has announced it will remove the 2031 deadline to record historic rights of way in England, ending the threat to over 41,000 miles of unrecorded paths.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4h

Aleister Crowley was born 150 years ago today.

Matthew Taylor's great grandmother funded Aleister Crowley, 'The Wickedest Man in the World'

Liberal England takes a deep breath: Matthew Taylor - that's Baron Taylor of Goss Moor, who was Liberal and then Liberal Democrat MP for Tr...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4h

Would you like to write me a guest post about it? 🙏

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